Oh for the time gone by when thought of Christ Made His yoke easy and His burden light; When my heart stirred within me at the sight Of Altar spread for awful Eucharist; When all my hopes His promises sufficed; When my soul watched for Him by day by night; When my lamp lightened, and my robe was white, And all seemed loss except the Pearl unpriced. Yet since He calls me still with tender call, Since He remembers Whom I half forgot, I even will run my race and bear my lot: For Faith the walls of Jericho cast down, And Hope to whoso runs holds forth a crown, And Love is Christ, and Christ is All in all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 4 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING FEARS IN SOLITUDE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE COLORED BAND by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE MIST AND ALL by DIXIE WILLSON QUATRAIN: THE IRON AGE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 94. AL-HADI by EDWIN ARNOLD RIDDLE by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |